Hi Everyone,
Happy Thursday, Happy Blog Day, Happy double show of Ghost day.
This edition I imagine will be written at regular intervals throughout the day. I am currently sat on the train into work but I know I won't finish writing this by the time that I get there so I may have to finish it after the matinee! My typing is really rubbish right now because my fingers are numb from standing on the freezing platform waiting for a train. I had to use mind over matter and imagine I was really warm, doesn't change the fact that I'm now typing my blog as if I have been given an extra 3 fingers on each hand and they're all just pushing any button they want uncontrollably!!!
I hope you've all had a great week. I certainly have. If you read last weeks crazy ass blog you'll remember me being ever so slightly frustrated for being muted for 5 days, well I am very happy to report that I went to see an ENT specialist last Friday for a follow up appointment. He had a different technique to look at my vocal chords - the first guy I saw at the beginning of the week just had a camera at the end of a metal rod that he just placed at the back of my tongue to see what he needed, but oh no, this other guy clearly thought he'd be clever and spritzed some anaesthetic spray up my right nostril and then proceeded to insert a long tube up my nose with a camera in it so that it went down my throat, it was weird and I couldn't really feel it until he started taking it out again, only then did I realise just how much he shoved up my shnozer - he pulled about 10 inches of tube out of my nose by the end, I'm surprised he couldn't see my bowels with that camera never mind my vocal chords!
However, as usual, I digress, he was happy to inform me that he was looking at a very healthy set of vocal chords and that all was well in the land of Mevans!
I was so relieved, a) because I was able to get back to work and b) because it meant that the frustrating silence had all been worth the effort in the end!
I am now writing in my dressing room as I bumped into a couple of friends on the train so thought it rude to keep typing. I have just been to the Whole Foods store behind our theatre to get some lovely healthy food for a two show day and I picked up their 'Mum's Chicken Soup' - I'm telling you, whoever that 'Mum' of theirs is, I want her to adopt me cos that woman makes one hell of a soup! I could feel it being digested in my body and on the way down it was looking at every molecule of the sniffly cold I've developed and declaring "alright nothing more to see here, move along, you're not wanted" - Cold, be gone with you! Mwahaha (panto villain laugh)
So I went back to work on Saturday evening and I loved it! It was almost just like a reminder of what I'm suppose to say and where I'm suppose to stand and how I'm suppose to react etc but it was good to be back with this wonderful company! They're a great bunch, on and off stage!
Sunday was yet again a chill out day for sure! I had a lazy morning before heading for a long walk to lovely East Dulwich and sat there for a couple of hours in a coffee shop and started organising my best friends 'Hen Do' cos I'm her 'Man Of Honour' at their wedding in June!
Then I walked home in the fresh weather - I say fresh, cos it makes me laugh that whenever us brits are walking around in the winter and we're almost freezing we insist on saying "ooh it's nice fresh weather"…it's not, it's just really bloody cold. It makes me think that they just mean it's so cold that your face could actually fall off, leaving you with a new 'fresh' one from that moment on! Gives a whole new meaning to the term fresh faced!
I cooked a lovely bolognese Sunday evening and enjoyed it with lots of ice cream to follow and then chilled with my good mate Jack Bauer (24 obsessed) and then hit the hay!
Monday I woke and headed to the gym before meeting a really great friend of mine, Amy who I worked with on Spamalot many moons ago, who I don't get to see often enough! It was great, we went to Bills in Covent Garden which I've mentioned in previous blogs and it was lovely. I then headed to the theatre to begin a wonderful week of Ghost with a healthy voice and feeling very rested! Good times!
On Tuesday I woke to go for a swim before meeting my friend Hollie (again at Bills), we worked together on High School Musical 4 years ago now, when I looked 'fresh faced' enough to play a 16 year old - that would never happen now! I would say my face is more weathered than fresh now!
After a nice catch up I headed to the rehearsal rooms to work on some of the show stuff with the new cast who open in our show on February 20th. It was great to meet them all finally. I wasn't able to make the official meet and greet last week because I couldn't speak. I thought it would be a bit rude to turn up and just wave at them instead of saying hello!
They're a lovely group of people and very talented. Very much looking forward to working with them all!
Then I headed to the work and after the show I met some friends who were watching for a good catch up.
Wednesday (yesterday) was a busy old day. I had two hours of radio interviews to do before a meeting with my manager and then I had a guitar lesson. I'm enjoying the ole gee-tar at the mo! It's really chilling to work on different stuff!
Last night's show was good, then I headed straight home to get to bed so I could rest as much as possible before today's two shows! - I did however watch an episode of 24 in bed though to send me to sleep (really tense). I woke this morning and had a massive breakfast whilst watching another episode of 24 and I worked out I can watch one in between the two shows (which is what I'm about to do) which would leave me with the last episode in season three so I can finish it TONIGHT!!! I can't wait!!!
Have a great week folks! If you're coming to see Ghost I will see you soon if you're not (why not?) I'll see you sometime I'm sure!
Love your lives, love each other and love yourselves!!!
Believe!!!
Sh-boom!!!
Mark
